Five Great Blogs About Role-Playing Games @ GeekDad
Robert Sandlan has posted an article on WIRED GeekDad that will hopefully spawn an entire series: There is a world of endless information out there on the net but when it comes to...
June 18, 2009
News & Reviews
OpenD6 logo revealed
Recently the web developer who is working for Eric Gibson to create the OpenD6 website revealed not only the OpenD6 logo but also posted an early screenshot of the OpenD6 website. The logo...
June 16, 2009
Get a discount at 6d6 Fireball!
Thanks for your help testing the 6d6 Fireball Affiliate System! I just got word from Chris Tregenza that the test was a success. To show their gratitude, the guys from 6d6 Fireball are...
June 16, 2009
When your campaign has jumped the shark
Sometimes I get the feeling that my love for epic stories has got the best of me. And usually when I push my roleplaying campaigns to epic extremes I shortly thereafter notice that...
June 16, 2009
Help the guys from 6d6 Fireball test their Affiliate system!
The nice guys from 6d6 Fireball need your help. They are currently testing their Affilitate systems. What can you do to help? Helping as a blogger/site owner: Let them know via twitter (send...
June 15, 2009
Good advice for all RPG bloggers
Yesterday fellow blogger Trask posted an article with advice for aspiring RPG bloggers over at Living Dice. Even if you are already a RPG blogger you should check out this post. It’s an...
June 15, 2009
Dungeons & Dragons Online goes free to play
Ok, in my first post I told everyone that this blog is about pen & paper RPGs and not MMORPGs or even LARP. But sometime you just have to break your own rules...
June 10, 2009
Earthdawn Third Edition
After FASA closed its doors, I lost track of what has happened to the Earthdawn franchise. So I was pretty surprised that the current license holder, RedBrick Ltd., is actually releasing a 3rd...
June 8, 2009
When the World of Darkness died …
A couple of years back I played in a lot of World of Darkness games. Everything started with “Vampire – The Masquerade”. The game was pretty new (at least to us) and in...
June 3, 2009
What happened to the Doctor Who RPG?
Some time ago Cubicle 7 Entertainment relaunched their website and while their other product lines (SLA Industries, Victoriana, Starblazer Adventures and Qin) make their appaerance at the new site, the Doctor Who RPG...
June 2, 2009
Fire & Ice
I recently read about the fantasy movie “Fire & Ice” and watched the trailer. From the looks of it, it was a TV movie or Direct-to-DVD production. Does anyone have seen this movie?...
May 28, 2009
Review: Into the Grey
The German band Erdenstern is known for their “Fantastic music for the adventure in your mind”. Their albums were mainly created with the use at the game table in mind. Five of their...
May 28, 2009
Random musings
The last few days I spent some quality time with my girlfriend, played a couple of computer games I had been lying around for a long time and watched a couple of movies....
May 25, 2009
Chat with ICE on RPGBomb (get HARP for free until 9pm EST today)
The social network for RPG fans, RPGBomb, hosted a chat with the guys from Iron Crown Enterprises a couple of hours ago. Alas I got the email with the announcement while I was already...
May 20, 2009
Bill Coffin’s Septimus will be WEG’s first big release under the OpenD6 banner!
West End Games and Bill Coffin’s Septimus are not dead after all! Recently Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that the secret project, he’s been working on for quite some...
May 19, 2009
Review: Questers of the Middle Realms
Questers of the Middle Realms is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy roleplaying game by Silver Branch Games. Questers uses the PDQ rules by Chad Underkoffler’s Atomic Sock Monkey and I have to admit that was...
May 18, 2009
Another sale at RPGNow
I regularly check RPGNow for interesting new freebies and/or sales. Today I noticed that White Wolf is celebrating Alexandertide, honoring their writer Alan Alexander by selling books he has worked on for 25% off...
May 14, 2009